• Asia Marketing Journal
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.17-38
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• 2018

Branded service encounters, in which various aspects of frontline employees are strategically aligned with the firm's brand positioning, can be achieved along several dimensions such as employee appearance, manner, and personality. While previous research has mainly focused on behavioral traits of employees, this research examines the employee's physical appearance in association with the brand personality trait across two studies. Study 1 shows that salesperson look-brand personality congruence enhances brand affect by inducing positive affect. Specifically, a brand-congruent look of a salesperson increases positive affect among customers by confirming their prior expectations about what a salesperson of a certain brand should look like as a brand representative. Study 2 reveals that the positive impact of salesperson look-brand personality congruence on brand affect is significant only for customers with high social anxiety whereas this effect disappears for those with low social anxiety. These findings extend previous research on branded service encounters by showing why and when frontline employees' physical appearance shapes customers' affective responses toward the brand.

• Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.105-120
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to verify the effects of brand experience on Brand Loyalty according to Emotional Responses. For this study, data were collected through Google questionnaires site. The survey ran from March to May, 2015, the total of 329 respondents was used in analysis. The subject consisted of adults living in domestic region, and convenience sampling. For statistical analysis, AMOS were used to verify the study model. The major results of the research are as follows. First, as to the relation between brand experiences and affectional responses, all of experience dimensions positively affect affectional responses. Second, regarding the relation between brand experience and brand attitude, partially experience dimensions affect brand attitude. Third, affectional responses affect positively brand attachment. Forth, brand attitude affect positively brand attachment. Fifth, brand attachment positively affect attitudinal brand loyalty and behavioral brand loyalty. Finally, with regard to the relation between brand experiences and brand attitude, consumer need for uniqueness has partially moderating effects when behavior experience affect brand attitude.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.30 no.7 s.155
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• pp.1126-1134
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of brand identification of fashion luxury product on brand loyalty and the mediating effect of brand affect. The questionnaire developed through the literature search and a survey was conducted both in on-line and off-line questionnaire simultaneously. Finally 227 data from women who had a buying experience of fashion luxury products were analyzed using frequency, factor analysis, ANOVA, t-test, regression analysis by SPSS for WIN program. The results were as follows. First, the consumers' brand identification was composed of three factors; actual, ideal, social. Second, the brand identification significantly influenced on the brand loyalty. Third, the brand identification significantly influenced on the brand affect. Fourth, the brand affect significantly influenced on the brand loyalty. Fifth, the brand identification had both direct and indirect effects on brand loyalty mediated by brand affect. The results indicated that causal relationship was existed among these three variables.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.3003-3010
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• 2015

In this study, consumer to use digital media is investigated on media engagement, Brand Attachment, Brand Relations Affect and Brand Loyalty of relation. also analyzing the mediating effect of brand relations affect and brand influence in the relationship between media engagement and brand attachment step has its purpose. Data analysis result showed that media engagement is significant effect on Brand Relations Affect and Brand Attachment, Brand relations Affect and Brand Attachment is significantly effected on the brand loyalty. And mediating Effect of brand Relation Affect was investigated by adjusting role between media engagement and brand attachment. Media engagement and brand relations, the influence of the brand attachment, brand relations affect has a greater effect.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.36 no.8
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• pp.837-848
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• 2012

This study examines how the overseas residence experience of Korean consumers influences the relationship of global fashion brand knowledge and brand choice confidence. We contrast two kinds of consumer brand knowledge, using the concepts of Alba and Hutchinson's expertise and familiarity. Considering the effect of positive affect on intuitive information processing, the present study investigated the role of positive affect in consumer brand knowledge and brand choice confidence link. The proposed model was tested with structural-equation analysis. The results show that expertise and familiarity effect the positive affect. Positive affect, in turn, influences brand choice confidence. The results indicate that the processes underlying global fashion brand knowledge and brand choice confidence link are different between the consumers with overseas residence experience for more than a year and the consumers without it. The route from expertise to positive affect has a significant impact on the consumers with overseas residence experience but not on the consumers without it; however, the route from familiarity to positive affect and the path from positive affect to brand choice confidence have a greater impact on the consumers without overseas residence experience than the consumers with it. We find that the consumers with overseas residence experience favor expertise in the process underlying global fashion brand knowledge and brand choice confidence link, whereas the consumers without it favor familiarity and affect based thought.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.317-324
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• 2021

This study aims to analyze how to increase the brand loyalty of BPJS Healthcare participants who are Muslim in Indonesia by increasing customer engagement and brand trust. This study is based on the premise that effective customer engagement is the first step toward gaining brand trust and loyalty. The five dimensions of customer engagement, namely enthusiasm, attention, absorption, interaction, and identification, were tested on how they affect brand trust and brand loyalty. This research was conducted by distributing questionnaires to 216 Muslim respondents who were BPJS Health users from six Islamic hospitals in Central Java, Indonesia. Data analysis was performed using a regression test with SPSS. The results showed that the dimensions of customer engagement consisting of enthusiasm, attention, and absorption had a significant effect on brand trust. Meanwhile, the dimensions of customer engagement which consist of interaction and identification, do not affect brand trust. Furthermore, brand loyalty can be influenced by enthusiasm, interaction, and brand trust. Meanwhile, attention, absorption, and identification cannot affect brand loyalty. Thus, the dimensions of customer engagement that can directly affect brand loyalty are enthusiasm and interaction, while those that affect indirectly (through brand trust), are enthusiasm, attention, and absorption.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.199-206
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• 2015

This study is the convenience Facebook brand fan page users who seek functional, emotional, divided into three levels of symbolic benefits to the brand benefit was to examine whether structurally affect to brand attachment and brand commitment. Results and emotional benefits are found to affect the brand attachment relative to the functional convenience. In addition, the symbolic benefits were to affect brand attachment compared with the functional convenience. But the emotional benefits and symbolic benefits was shown to affect different brand without attachment, brand attachment points have been identified that affect the antecedents of brand engagement.

• Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.21-37
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• 2007

This research investigates relationships between a company's corporate image and consumer attitudes toward brands in the company. It also examines the fit between a company and its individual products and consumer-company identification as intervening variables between the relationships. Data for this research were collected from 347 undergraduate students through a survey. They were asked to provide their perceptions on two brands for each of 8 large Korean companies. The results indicate that corporate image directly influences brand trust, whereas it does not affect brand trust indirectly, through company-product fit. Also, the results indicate that corporate image does not directly influence brand affect, whereas it does influence brand affect indirectly, through consumer-company identification.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.120-132
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to investigate thet 5 dimensions of brand personality that could affect brand attachment, and actual and ideal self-congruence in the family restaurant. Also, this study investigated the effects of actual and ideal self-congruence on brand attachment. Questionnaires were given to a sample of customers who visited one of the 4 famous national brands of family restaurants in Daegu. A total of 332 questionnaires were analyzed with SPSS/$PC^+$and LISREL. There were four major empirical research findings. First, sincerity, competence, sophistication and ruggedness affected brand attachment. And second, sincerity, competence and sophistication affected actual self-congruence. Third, sincerity and sophistication affected ideal self-congruence. And fourth, actual self-congruence affected brand attachment. However, the excitement dimension of brand personality did not affect brand attachment,; dimensions of excitement and ruggedness did not affect actual self-congruence,; dimensions of excitement, competence and ruggedness did not affect ideal self-congruence. Also, ideal self-congruence did not affect brand attachment. Based on these findings, marketers of family restaurants were recommended to strengthen the dimensions of sincerity, competence, and sophistication, and to weaken the ruggedness dimension.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.389-402
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• 2015

Due to tough competition among social network services, technological specification alone could not be an adoption factor by the users. Instead, emotional factors such as a brand image and feeling towards an SNS brand became important factors in service differentiation. This study examined Korean young users perception of brand personalities of three social network services, Facebook, Kakao Story, and Band. It also analyzed the influence of the perception of brand personality, brand-self-image congruence, and brand affect on brand recommendation to others. The authors conducted a survey of Korean college students. The results indicate that SNS users perceived three SNS's brand personalities differently, and the positive perception of an SNS service has a positive effect on brand recommendation. Brand personality, brand-self-image congruence, and brand affect combined determine brand recommendation. When the brand personality variable is statistically controlled, brand affect has strong effect on brand recommendation.